Ronin hops down to the Subway in Harlem, slipping into the seat next to the ball he cuddles up close and begins whispering sweet nothings in its ear. The view of a 6’5" white dude talking to a ball keeps any would be thugs at bay. He hops off at the next stop and engages his jet pack to begin the long flight down to Mexico. Sadly he forgot to convert gallons to liters and ended up being short on fuel, touching down somewhere in Tennessee.
Can I just claim I replied to Sternvogel? sigh
Somewhere in Tennessee, yes, right by the Tennessee river, whereon Enterprise’s sidewheeler, fresh from St. Louis, takes aboard the ball. Sadly, out of wood to fuel the boilers, Enterprise is obliged to put the ball into the fire. It doesn’t burn, but is propelled out of the smokestacks, high, higher, highest until it comes down…
What-evah – 'cause twicks regains possession for the Hairy A’s, and hops on a helicopter leaving from the top of Trump Tower and headed for the Hamptons. Touching down in Jerry Seinfeld’s backyard, she finds…
Feydeau lunching with the stars. The ball finds its own way into the cheese dip, where it is retrieved by…
Oh, and Enterprise, in school I was taught that’s called a riverboat. Do you refer to your toilet as a commode?
Sternvogel, who points out that a sidewheeler is one type of riverboat, and that another is (ironically) a sternwheeler. He’d look for a pic to link, but wants to get this post done in a timely manner, so he passes to…
Feydeau, who is contentedly licking all the cheese dip from the ball. Afterwards, passing it (dry) to…
Details? We don’t need to stinkin’ riverboat details!! 
twicks, who prefers not to think about the various drool, cheese, etc., that the ball has passed through in the last few hours, squeamish girly type that she is. She fastidiously picks up the ball and places it on the tray of a passing waiter; he delivers it to …
Sternvogel, whose experience with riverboats is limited to the ones he’s ridden at amusement parks. He hops aboard the paddlewheeler at Ohio’s Cedar Point. In the “Indian village” along the bank, he spots…
Sternvogel, whose experience with riverboats is limited to the ones he’s ridden at amusement parks. He hops aboard the paddlewheeler at Ohio’s Cedar Point. In the “Indian village” along the bank, he spots…
…Enterprise, honorary chief of the Laughing Lemur branch of the Cherokee tribe. In a impressive ceremony, the ball is dedicated to…
Feydeau, who is markedly confused about suddenly being in Ohio, of all places. Grabbing the ball and running post-haste toward New York…
Feydeau, now known as Cheif Biggums. Passing the ball to…
Just to keep our heads up…I blew a play because I didn’t realize R was on our team…
Team 1 (Hairy A’s): A B C F G H I M N O T U Y
Team 2 (Larruping Lemurs): D E J K L P Q R S V W X Z
twicks, a.k.a. Princess Passionflower, who jumps into her canoe and paddles off, hotly pursued by …
Sternvogel catches up to Princess Passionflower, does his best (which is to say execrable) Nelson Eddy impression, and steals the ball from twickster.
…Enterprise, apologizing to Feydeau for the repeat simulposts. He thwacks Princess Passionflower with a paddle and sees the ball fall from her hands into the depths of the Ohio River, where it is found (ages later) by…
grmbl again…anyway, Sternvogel seeming unwilling to part with the ball, Enterprise, still in whacking mood, whacks his teammate and gleefully hops up and down their canoe, now dumping the ball into the river afterall…
… but Princess Passionflower (er, twicks), who’s apparently now channeling Esther Williams, swims up in a dainty breast stroke (heh. she said “breast.”) and retrieves the ball, balancing it on her nose. Imagine her astonishment when …